Terms 82.00 A Year, in Advance.
BefleTonte, Pa., June 20, 1890.
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Epitor
——The ‘German-American riflemen
who crossed the ocean some days ago
to take part in a schuetzenfest on the
soil of the old Fatherland were given a
royal reception in Berlin last Sunday.
A banquet ‘was served for their refresh-
mentand in the evening they were enter-
tained ata military concert. The fact of
its being Sunday didn’t in the least -in-
terfere with the fun, mor had it the
slightest effect on the flow of lager.
——HENRY GEORGE, jr., son of the
celebrated « land reformer, Huxry
GEORGE, says that his father has writ-
ten a letter in which he favors Craux-
oY F. Brack for Governor because of
Mr. Bracks advocacy of the Austra-
lian ballot system. Mr. Brack is a
good man to be for, but, as to the Aus-
tralian ballot system, all the Democrat--
iccandidates favor it. It has been ac-
cepted as one of the leading measures
of the Democratic party.
——Young “Bertie” Adams, of
Philadelphia,who was favored with the
mission to Brazil by Presidennt Haz-
RISON,has resigned his ministerial posi-
tion. It is evident that he was not cut
out for diplomatic business, and that
some other line would suit him
better. He would like to be a member
of congress and showed the bent of his
tancy when he had himself talked
about as the successor of Mr. RANDALL,
but the Third District offered but lit-
tle encouragement to his ambition.
——A shocking discovery has been
made of an attempt to pass a railroad
bill through the Massachusetts legisla-
ture by the employment of $100,000 in
the way of bribes. Ten thousand dol-
lars was to be given to each of ten rep-
resentatives who should give the bill
their support. The scheme failed
through its untimely discovery, which
goes to show that boodle legislation in’
Massachusetts needs a Quay to suc-
cessfully conduct it on the principle of
“addition, division and silence.”
A bill has been reported to the
House of Representatives at Washing-
ton to prohibitaliens from owning lands
in the United States. This movement
has been prompted by the alarming
fact that 21,000,000 acres of what
was recently the property of the United
States government, have come into th
possession of foreigners, chiefly English
noblemen. Surely something should
be done to prevent the public domain,
which should furnish homes to Ameri-
can citizens, from becoming the proper-
ty of absentee landlords.
of the censusare coming in through the
columns of the papers. There ig,
enough definitely known ot the Phila-
delphia count to warrant the claim of
a population of 1,100,000 in that city.
This shows a gratifying increase of
about 300,000 in the last ten years. The
following populations of other towns
in the state are claimed to have been as-
certained from official sources : Wilkes-
barre, 46,000, Lancaster 32,000, Wil-
liamsport 31,000; Easton 15,000, Al-
lentown 26,000.
——7For a thing that has no soul, as
is the case with a corporation, the
Westinghouse Electric Company is dis-
playing remarkable seusitiveness con-
cerning the use of its dynomos in the
execution of rnurderers by electricity.
It appears that it is the interference of
this company that has delayed the
electrical execution of Kemmler. It
certainly has no interest in the criminal,
and what its object is in interfering
with the enforcement of the law pre-
scribing execution by electricity is hard
to understand.
PT —
Congressman Kerr on Contract Labor.
Congressman Kerr, of this District,
is pushing with commendable determi-
nation his resolution concerning the
importation of foreign workmen for the
Jeannette glass-works. He is emphat-
ic in his declaration that it is a subject
that demands correction, and he has
made up his mind to use every endeav-
or to correct it. If there is a defect in
the law that prohibits the importation
of contract laborers it is a very serious
one for American workingmen, and
Mr. Kerr can do them no greater cer-
vice than by applying himself to the
task of providing a remedy for that de-
fect. The Campbell case showed that
tbe alien labor law is being grossly
violated by parties who are reaping the
chief benefits of the tariff. If the law
is not intended to be a mere sham for
the delusion of the working people, !
Congress will act favorably upon Mr.
KERR'S resolution.
Growth of Pennsylvania Towns.
It was given out that the census
enumerators would not be allowed to
give information concerning the result
of their-iabors, yet in some way the
papers have learned the population of
different towns and cities as shown by
the census work. Thus Altoona has
grown from 19,710 in 1880 to 29,654
in 1890; Bethlehem from 5,193 to
23,000; Bradford from 9,197 to 13,500;
Chester from 14,997 to 21,700; Erie
from 27,000 to 45,000 ; Johnstown from
7,350 to 27,000; Lancaster from 25,
000 to 35,000; Norristown from 13,000
to 19,000; Pittsburg from 156,000 to
250,000; Reading from 43,000 to 66,
000: Seranton from 45,000 to 95,000;
Wilkes-barre from 23,000 to 42,000 ;
Williamsport from 18,000 to 31,000;
Yorktrom 13,000 to 24,000.
None of these towns have reason to
be ashamed of the progress they have
made. There have been some extra-
ordinary increases, that of Scranton
amounting to more than a hundred
per cent. The remarkable growths of
Sethlehem and Johustown are owing,
however, to the annexation of adjoin-
ing boroughs.
——The ten deiegates from York
county to the Democratic State con-
vention are instructed for Cuavx~cey F,
Brack, for Governor, but it is reported
that he will not allow his name to be
presented to the convention, but will
have his delegates cast their votes for
Wirriax U. Hexser, of Lancaster, for
Governor. The brilliant Lancaster
leader has nine delegates instructed for
him from his own county, and is said
to be sure of eleven others from Berks,
Lebanon, Philadelphia and elsewhere.
These, together with the ten from the
old Democratic stronghold of York,
will give hin a very respectable
start at the opening of the convention.
a —
——Cr1s Maeer, of Allegheny
county, turns up as a political figure at
a time when his appearance on the
stage is calenlated to make trouble for
the Boss. The leading plank in his plat
form is “anything $0 beat Qnay.” He
is strong for Mo~toorH, and is quite
open in proclaiming that if Derama-
TER should be nominated there would
be no certainty of carrying even so
strong a Republican county as Alle-
gheny.
Harrison on the Make.
His Disposition to Return to Indiana as
Much Ahead as Possible.
Chicago Herald.
WasHINGTON, June 8.—The present
of a seaside cottage to Mrs. Harrison by
Postmaster General Wanamaker and
other wealthy men of Philadelphia, has
been the subject of much unfavorable
comment and criticism here. It was
believed the gift enterprise business had
played out in Presidential families
since Grant was so much criticised for
accepting valuable presents, and Repub-
licans are much annoyed that the Har-
risons should be the first to revive it.
They say that while there is nothing
disgraceful or corrupt about accepting
such presents, it is in bad taste and has
been condemned by public sentiment.
This is not the first time the Harri-
sons have offended in this respect. Tt 1s
weil known that when the President
came to Washington he accepted a gift
of several fine carriages from a Western
manufacturing firm. The Harrisons
are making a valiant effort to save a big
lot of money out of their salary. They
live economically at the White House,
do their shopping at Baltimore, New
York, and Philadelphia, where prices
are lower than in Washington, and im-
ort many: of their household necessities
in bulk trom the country. It is said
that Mrs. Harrison has made her boasts
that Benjamin will leave the White
House $100,000 richer than when he
came into it, and it appears that a free
summer at Deer Park, a present from
the Davises and Elkinses, and a free
cottage by the sea, a gift from Wana-
maker and others, are part of the pro-
gramme of economy.
Never before, it is said, was the White
House run so economically. The staff
of servants is unusually small, and Mrs.
Harrison watches every item of expense
t& ¢refully as washer wont in private
lite. One of the official staff at the
White House is authority for the state-
ment that even Rutherford B. Hayes
spent two dollars in the White House
where Benjamin Harrison spends cne.
Hayes set up no wines or liquors, but
he did not spare expense in other direc-
tions. Single entertainments given by
him cost $4,500. President Harrison
serves wines at state dinners, but they
are not of expensive vintages. Some of
the Senatorial and diplomatic connois-
seurs say unpleasant and ungracious
things about the wines which they tost-
ed at the White House.
A queer story has been brought out
by the gossip about the gift cottage.
It-is to the effect that a new bank,
started by a coterie of Washington spec-
ulators and financiers, is using as an ad-
vertisement the fact that President
Harrison is one of its depositors. One
of the directors of this bank says a de-
posit was placed to the President's cred-
it by unknown parties, and the belief is
that the directors have made the deposit
and sent the bank book to the President
for advertising purposes. :
——Three frame dwellings, which
will be handsome and commodious strue-
tures, are beinx erected for Joseph
Brothers on Curtin street, immediately
east of the property of Andrew G. Cur-
tin, Jr. Mr. F. C. Montgomery has had
the excavation commenced for the foun-
| dation of his new residence on East Linn
street.
Mr, Harrison Was Perplexed.
Troubled by a Suspicion That His
Grandfather’s Hat is Too Small
Jor Him.
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New York Times.
The President has been unusuaily
thoughtful for several days. He was
evidently revolving in his mind some
mighty problem, and twice the Chief
Magistrate was seen standing in front of
the hat rack lost in meditation. At last
he overcame the doubts and hesitation
that had beset him so long; again he
took an interest in the surprising way
Baby MeKee wore out shoes, and in all
the other matters pertaining to his high
office.
That night, as he was preparing to re-
tire, the Chief Magistrate revealed his
purpose. “I have made up my mind,”
he said, removing his collar as he spoke,
and deciding, after a careful inspection,
that it would do to wear another day.
“I have made up my mind, and I'm go-
ing to get one.”
“One what, Benjamin?” asked his
wife anxiously.
“A new hat,” replied the Chief Mag-
istrate, in a tone that tried to be firm, but
didn’t quite get there. “Yes, yes,” he
continued deprccatingly, as he noticed
an ominous cloud gathering on her face.
“I know you'll say I'm extravagant,
but I'm so tired of that old thing of
grand-father’s. Thereisn’ta bit of style
about it, and it never did fit me, any-
way. Of course, it’s still a good, ser-
viceable hat, but—let Russell wear it.
The little cap we bought him in Indian-
apolis is getting to be too small, every-
body says. And besides,” the Chief
Magistrate went on feverishly, “Brotaer
Wanamaker says that for $4 39 he will
sell me a—"
“Stop, Benjamin, stop!” interrupted
Appalling Pension Figures.
Philadelphia Times.
Major Carson, the intelligent Wash-
ington correspondent of the Ledger, and
states in his dispatch to Thursday's
Ledger that the new pension bill “will
swell the pension roll for the fiscal year
of 1891 to an aggregate of rearly 8175,-
000,000, if it does not exceed that
sum.”
al Garfield, as Chairman of Appropria-
tions, reported the pension appropria-
tion of $38,000,000, he excused the
amount and justified the passaze of the
| measure, because, as he stated, that was
| the largest sum that could ever be called
for to pay pensioners, as from that time
the list would decline. Now, twenty
years later, our pension expenditures are
up to $175,000,000, with r:asonable pros-
pect of reaching the enormous sum of
$200,000,000.
‘When Lincoln became President the
entire revenues of the government, in-
cluding proceeds of public lands, were
less than $50,000,000. Now, twenty-
five years after peace, and our national
debt no longer oppressive, the expenses
of the government are over $1,000,000
each day ; they will reach to $400,000,-
0600 or $450,000,000 next year ;and a large
of the fiscal year as is the rising of the
sun.
The question that must soon demand
the sober consideration of intelligent
men of el] parties, is—how long can the
nation bear this strain upon the com-
merce, industry and the trade of the
conntry ? One year of short corps or
any financial revulsion—toward which
we are rushing headlong to satiate the
greed of the silver speculators—would
swing the pendulum in violence from
Mrs. Harrison, and the hair brush fell
from her fingers as, with a pale drawn
face, she turned and confronted the now
thoroughly aroused Chief Magistrate.
“This is a plot, a deep plot of that man
Blaine. It’s just like him to suggest
such a thing. And to think that Mr,
Wanamaker should help him in it! Oh,
this is too much, too much 1”?
To gain time for deliberation the
President stepped upon a hassock and
turned out one of the two gas jets a
wasteful servant had lighted.” Then in
asoothing tone he said: “Don’t getex-
cited, Mrs. H, It was all my own idea.
Do you think I'd ask advice from that
man Rlaine on any subject?”
With an effort Mrs Harrison controll-
ed her emotion. “Listen to me, Benja-
min,” she said. “Suppose that the old
hat is too large for you. Don’t you
think it’s judicious to have at least one
big thing about this administration ?”’
The Chief Magistrate mused. “You
are right,” he said at last. Ten minutes
later he had finished his preparations
for slumber, which included a careful
counting of the loose change in his pock-
ets, and peace brooded over the White
House.
A Lost Bible's Long Voyage.
Curious Recovery of a Family Relic
8000 Miles from Home.
PrrrsBURGH, Pa., June 15.-—Frank
Semple, manager of the estate of the late
Vice President William Thaw, of the
Pennsylvania Railroad, recovered his
deceased father’s lost bible in an extra-
ordinary manner. The story forms a
pretty sequel to the recent tour to the
Holy Land by the three Methodist min-
isters from Pittsburg, Rev. W. H.
Pearce, D. D., Rev. T. J. Leak, D. D,,
and Rev. J. A. Ballantyne.
Nearly two months ago, when the
arty, bound homeward, reached the
Mediterranean Sea, they boarded a ves-
el at Alexandretta, a small town on the
Syrian coast. It is over 8000 miles
from Pittsburg. Some official of the
levee followed the gentlemen aboard,
and going up to Rev. Dr. Pearce hand-
ed him a small band Bible. The man
explained that it had been left there by
some persen years before, and as it
would probably be sadly missed by its
owner it had been carefully preserved
at Alexandretta, awaiting the visit of
other Pittsburgers to carry it back to
its owner’s home.
So Dr. Pearce was requested to place
the book in the hands of the right man
in Pittsburg. He brought it home
with him. The volume is one of the
old-fashioned Polyglott Bitles, which
are quite rare now. On its fivleaf is
written in lead pencil: “John B. Sem-
ple, Pittsburg, December, 1844.” The
name 18 repeated on the next page.
The three clergymen, being new to
Pittsburgh, did not recognize this par-
ticular name, althdugh they knew there
were several families of the Semples in
this city.
Frank Semple, who attends to the ad-
ministration of the estate of the late
William Thaw, is a son of the gentle-
man alluded to, and a reporter carried
the Bible to his office on Fourth avenue
yesterday. As soon as it was shown
him he recognized it. “For years it lay
in our family pew at the Third Presby-
terian Church,” he said. “It was giv-
en father by a gentleman who became a
missionary among the Choctaw Indians.
He prized it highly, as we used it every
Sabbath at church. When I was a boy
I used to read the texts out of this same
book in church. Well do I remem-
ber it.”
Mr. Semple is now a gray-haired gen-
tleman. His father died 1n 1877. The
Bible was missed a good many years
ago, but as /it was simply used for
church purposes no search was made
for it.
“But your father carried it abroad
with him,’’ suggested the reporter.
“No, he never went abroad,” ve-
plied the gentleman. “I have not the
remotest idea how the Bible turned up
8000 miles away from Pittsburg. I can
form no conception how it got that far
away. Certain it is, though, I am glad
to get it back again. It recalls very
vividly my father, and my own boy-
hood days.”
~The Philipsburg Ledger romsrks :
{ County Treasurer Cyrus Goss was in
! town on Monday and Tuesday, collect-
| ing the mercantile licenses. We have
had no more faithful and agreeable
County official than Mr. Goss, and he
will retire from his term of office with
the respect and good will of the whole
! Jeople of the county, whose treasure he
! has faithfully and honestly guarded for
one term,
profligacy to the side of economy, and
then what would be the fate of a $200,-
000,000 annual pension system ?
“Shelly” Knits Stockings.
The Down-Fallen Lawyer's Work in
Penitentiary Confinement.
Knitting stockings with a hand ma-
chine is the daily occupation of J. Mon-
roe Shellenberger, Bucks county’s dis-
graced lawyer, whose twenty-two years
sentence in the Eastern Penitentiary is
the Leaviest in the institution except
that of the life prisoners. It was quite a
come-down for the once respected and
influential attorney, and he resented the
labor very much at first.
Work was always a foreizn quantity
to bis vain and happy-go-lucky nature,
but he has adapted himself to his new
occupation with an aptitude excelled on-
ly by his former ability to “steal other
folks’ signatures.” His overseers state
that he is one of the most industrious
workmen in the institution, and the
quality of his work is unusually good.
His appearance has been so much
changed that his own fellow-citizens
would hardly recognize him. The lux-
uriant head of iron-gray hair is gone,
and the massive mustache that drooped
gracefully over a coarse full mouth has
disappeared in accordance with prison
rules. His figure is not improved by the
striped prison clothing. He is no longer
the loud-spoken, good-natured and os-
tentatious “Shelly,” but a quietand
tamed “number.” He shirks the pres-
ence of strangers, showing extreme sensi-
tiveness at his present state of degreda-
tion, and rarely speaks to a fellow-con-
viet.
re ———————
No Uncertain Sound.
New York Times.
It is very noticeable how frank and
confident are the utterances of the Dem-
ocratic platforms upon the subject of the
tariff, especially in the West. Itis not
very long since Democratic platform-
makers were mainly bent upon consider-
ing how the tariff issue might be shirk-
ed. Thedifference is in great part due to
Mr. Cleveland’s courage and to the dis-
cussion which he forced upon his party
and upon the country. Butitis due, in
McKinley bill, in which the principle of
protection is for the first time carried
avowedly to the point of prohibition.
Almost every man engaged in business
has his grievance against some clause in
this measure. When the Democrats de-
nounce it they feel sure that the
opinion of the country is with them.
The defeat of the Democrats in 1888
may be ascribed to the Mills bill,though
only indirectly and by reason of the
great amounts of money the threat it
made against them induced the
beneficiaries of the tariff to contribute to
the Republican campaign fund. The
McKinley bill, however, if it is enacted,
will be the most effective campaign
document possible for the Democrats in
1892.
A Significant Showing.
New York Evening Post.
Everybody is interested to know how
the verious trades of the country stand
on the tariff “issue as formulated in (he
pending bill. The editor of the Dry
Goods Economist recently sent to the
trade journals a note requesting each to
inform bim of its editorial attitude on
the McKinley bill so far as the schedules
of that bill touched the special industry
which it represented. Up to the time of
going to press for Saturday’s issue he
had received forty-one replies, of which
nineteen were opposed to the bill, seven
in favor, and fifteen non-committal. In
several cases, moreover, where the editor
declined to commit his paper publicly, he
writes that personally he is opposed to
the measure, one such in the West say-
{ ing : “Personally T think the Republican
party have made a great mistake, and,
unless corrected by the Senate, the Me-
Kinley bill will be the rock on which
the party will founder.” Sucha show-
ing is full of significance.
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Grain Fields Devastated by Fire.
MEeRrcED, Cal.,June17.—A fire which
started in a house five miles south of
this place, yesterday afternoon
spread to the grain fields.and raged for
five hours in the grain shocks and fields,
until a strip thirteen miles mn length
had been laid in ashes. People flocked
to the fire from all directions and soon
1,000 men were engaged in fighting the
‘flames. The wind died away at sunset,
and the line of fire having reached an
' open space, the flames were brought un-
der contrcl. The loss is about $20,000 ;
insurance small.
clerk to the Ways and Means committee, | on her way home, shortly before noon
and looking about her for awhile she fi-
treasury deficit is as certain at the close |
a scarcely less degree, to the outrageous |
Snake Charming in Cambria County.
Altoona, Pa., Times,
As the story goes, Mrs. David Trex-
ler, of Ashville, Cambria county, was
on Monday last, which is located less
than a mile from Ashville, when she
hear the cry of a bird in apparent distress,
nally discovered a pheasant running in
| a circle evidently charmed by some then
Six years after the war, when Gener- | unknown power.
Further investiga-
| tion revealed the presence of a large
| blacksnake, upon which Mrs. T., had
| simon trodden before she noticed it,
and this unraveled the mystery. Close
| beside the snake lay three young
| pheasants, all dead, and everything in-
| dicated that the mother bird was then
| under the influence oi the reptile’s gaze
{ and unless rescued would soon fall a
| prey to its weil known rapacity. The
approach of Mrs. Trexler, however,
frightened the snake and it iost its pow-
er for the time being, whereupon the
bird took to wing and flew away.
Proceeding home, Mrs. Trexler re-
ported the matter, when a young man
named McCarty went to the spot and
found the bird again in the toils of the
serpent, moving about in a circle and
gradually approaching its enemy, whose
head, from which its tongue protruded
two or three inches, was elevated half a
foot or more in the air. Procuring a
stout club, the lad dispatched the snake
at one blow, when the pheasant again
made its escape. After killing the rep-
tile, young McCarty carried it to the
residence of Mr. Trexler, where it was
found on measurement to be five feet six
inches in length and about as thick as a
man’s wrist. A swelling in thestomaech
of the serpent left no doubt that it had
been gorging itself with one of the old
pheasant’s brood before it had been dis-
turbed in its gastronomical feast.
Mr. Trexler, from whom we get the
above story, relates that when he was a
boy, about fifty years ago, he was fish-
ing oneday in Clearfield Creek, when he
heard the pitiful ery of a cat-bird,
and having a curiosity to know what
the trouble was, he looked the matter
up and discovered the bird flying around
in a circle, while on the ground beneath
lay a black snake about four feet long-
with jts head raised and tongue protrud-
ing, as in this more recent case. It was
but the work of a moment to kill the
snake and relieve the bird, which flew
away with a joyful cry, that left no
doubt that the rescue was to it a very
welcome one.
Fasted for Eight Months.
Mrs. Wuchter Tasted no Water
Seventy-one Days.
Sow
ALLENTOWN, Pa., June 17.—Lehigh
county has within its borders a remark-
able fastiog woman in the person of Mrs.
Adam Wuchter, of South Whitehall,
five miles from here, who for eight
months has taken practically no nour-
ishment and has not taken a drop of
water since Good Friday, April 4, sev-
enty-one days ago. Her. case is puz-
zling the local physicians here beyond
measure and is attracting wide curiosity
among the medical fraternity.
She is barely alive and no more. Six-
teen months ago she was taken ill of a
mysterious disorder. Dr. G. W. Sieger
was celled in, but he was unable to
make an accurate diagnosis of her dis-
ease. Drs. W. H. Seip, G. T. Fox and
others were successively consulted, but
they, too, were at loss what to make of
the strange malady. Eight months ago
they ceased administering medicines,
though they have continued their visits
regularly on account of the extraordi-
nary features of the case.
Since then the poor woman kas only
occasionly been able to take a teacup full
of liquid nourishment, and no solid food
whatever. Mrs. Wuchter suffers pain
in her head almost constantly and is
subject to violent spasms. She is 38
years of age, but owing to her extreme
emaciation she look like a woman of 60
or 70. :
DE —
A Doctor's Prompt Action.
Snyder county is now talking about a
case In which one of her doctors perform-
ed wonders a few days since. Dr. Ruth-
rofl’ is practicing medicine near Selins-
grove, and about three days ago he was
called to see a child suffering with diph-
theretic croup. The case wasa very bad
one, and he called Dr. H. N. Nipple, of
Selinsgrove, in consultation. The doc-
tor responded as soon as possible, but
when he arrived he was met at the door
by Dr. Ratbroff, who told him that he
had arrived too late, the child was dead.
Nipple asked to see the corpse and to-
gether they walked into the chamber of
death. Dr. Nipple bent over the bed and
thought he detected a slight action of
the heart. He said so to Dr. Ruthroff,
but that gentleman did not think so.
However, Dr. Nipple at once drew out a
little knife and making an incisionin the
throat he inserted a silver tube. The
child breathed at once and rapidly got
better. There are now strong hopes that
it will recover.
Im CI ——
Sad Death of an Old Man.
The Muncy Luminary say that Chris-
tian Meirs, aged 80 years, met a tragic
death at the home ot his brother Au-
gust, in Mosquito Valley, Lycoming
county, late Saturday night. The old
man was a resident of Philadelphia and
came to Williamsport some time ago to
spend the sumer in the country. Sat-
urday night he went to the place where
the buttermilk was kept to get a drink,
but instead picked up a can of concen-
trated lye. Before discovering his er-
ror he had swallowed a mouthful of the
fiery liquid. His mouth and throat
were horribly burned, but the old man
sat down and said nothing about it.
Later on he went into convulsions and
in a rational moment told of what had
bappenad. A physician was called, but
the victim was beyond relief and died
in agony about midnight. It was at
first thought that the man had drunk
the deadly poison with suicidal intent,
but later developments did not sub-
stantiate this theory.
——At Indianapolis on Wednesday
night, during a storm, a ball of fire the
size of an egg came off the telephone in
Attorney Gereral Michgner’s house,
grazed that gentleman’s ear, and ex-
ploded.
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ADDITIONAL LOCALS.
BELLEFONTE’S PorurnaTion.—There
is a report, which seems to be about the
correct thing, that the census returns
give Bellefonte a population, in round
numbers, of 5,900. In 1830 its popu-
lation was 3,026, thus showing that
there has been an increase of about 1900.
CHILDRENS’ DAY. — The Sunday
School connected with the Evangelical
church in Spring Mills will celebrate
Childrens’ Day June 22. At 10 o'clock
a. m., the pastor will preach a sermon to
the children, and at 7:45 p. m., the Sun-
day school will render the especiallylpre-
pared programe. -
A Bic BaxD.—L. J. Fisk, the leader
of a Williamsport band, is negotiating a
scheme to combine about 10 brass bands,
which will have a membership of 250
musiciang, into one, to play in that city
on the evening of July 4th. IIe proposes
{ to send the same music to each band so
they may have an opportunity to re-
hearse it. No doubt the effect will be
great, and will be worth hearing.
THE FourtH AT TyroNE.—The
Fourth of July will be seen at its best
this year in the thriving town of Ty-
rone, where the Sons of America will
have a parade with several thousand
men in line, and State Secretary Wil-
liam Weand and others will deliver ad-
dresses. As Tyrone is nearby and the
round trip will cost but a small sum,
there ought to be a large attendance
from this place, especially of the mem-
bers of the order specially interested.
THE METHODIST CHILDRENS’ DAY.
The pleasant and interesting incidents of
Childiens’ Day in the Methodist church
of this place last Sunday fully justified
the elaborate preparations that had been
made for it in the way of floral decora-
tions. The wreaths and flowers were
arranged with artistic taste. Laurel
and spruce designs were suspended from
each of the gas jets, and plants and
flowers adorned the windows. A rail-
ing of flowers surrounded the platform
which was built around the pulpit, and
inside the pulpit recess a bed of moss
had the effect of producing an appearance
of nature. From the centre of an undu-
lating surface of moss arose a cross bear-
ing the motto “By this sign conquer.’’
Over this was sprung an arch composed
of green wreaths, and a cross surmount-
ed the arch.
The church was filled at an early
hour in the afternoon, and at 3 o’clock
the Sunday School children were usher-
ed in and occupied the large space re-
served for them. While they were en-
tering the choir sang, “Numberless are
the Sands.” The girls were dressed in
white, and each class bore a device, such
as a cross, wreath, heart, anchor, bible.
shepherd’s crook, ete., which , were
placed on the hed of moss around the
Cross.
A concert recitation of the 23d Psalm
and tl® Lord’s Prayer, led by Rev.
Mr. Houck, was followed by the follow-
ing programme :
Singing—‘Jesus Loves the Little Ones,” In-
fant sehool.
“Address of welcome,” by Mamie Jamison.
Dialogue, by four little girls.
Musie—No. 49, by the school.
Recitation—“Golden Rod,” by Annie Koontz.
The little girl held a bunch of golden rod in
her hand.
“My Favorite,” a recitation, hy Mertie Fied-
ler, a very little girl who presented a wonder-
fully cute appearance on the platform.
Flora Deschiner sang a song, “The Loving
Little Ones,” in a very sweet voice.
An exercise, by!a classjfof girls. On the
front of each dress was a letter, which, com-
bined, read, “Hear ye children.”
Lidie Moore recited “My Best Friend.” She
held in her hand an orange.
“Jesus loves the children,” a song by the
infant school.
Lizzie Allen, a recitation, “If I could only
know.”
Recitation, “Dew Drops,” by Adaline Ole-
wine.
Musie, “Praise Him,” by the school.
Exercise by class, “The Lord of the Har-
vest,” in which Lottie Yeager bore the princi-
pal part.
“Random thoughts on Giving,” a recitation
by Helen Hastings.
Muséc—“Sing, Children Sing,” by the infant
schoal.
Recitation—“A Child’s Prayer” by Edna
Lutz.
Recitation—*“Daisy Time,” by Jennie Koontz.
In her hand was a bunch of wild daisies.
Exercise by class, “The Shepherd snd
Sheep.” Jasper Stover handled the crook and
madega very creditable shepherd.
Music—No. 40, by the school concluded the
afternoon's exercises, and the congregation
was dismissed with the benediction.
The evening services commenced at
7:30 o'clock, the church being again
well filled. After the choir had sung
the anthem, “Oh, come, let us sing,”
and a prayer by Rev. Jesse Akers, ad-
dresses were make by Miss Lillie M.
Smith, Miss Eva Deschner and Miss
Carrie Robb, explanatory of Childrens’
Day and Methodism. Addresses were
also made by Miss Maggie Deschner
and Miss Hannah Hamilton. The in-
fant School sang the ‘Little Crusaders”
very charmingly, after which there was
an explanation of the meaning of the
beautiful arch which we have already
described. The inscriptions taken from
the centre of the arch by seven young
ladies gave the words “Virtue,”
“Knowledge,” “Temperance,” ‘Pa-
tience,” “Godliness,” “Brotherly Kind-
ness,” and ¢¢ Charity,” which constitute
the foundation of the trne Christian
character. This was the concluding
scene of these beautiful and interesting
services.